Word: autos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...farmer claims to be poor.* He insists he can't pay his old debts, much less contract fresh ones for such new-fangled electrical equipment. So in an attempt to elevate his economic standing and put electric milkers, pigpen warmers and auto- matic cornhuskers within his reach, the Committees on Agriculture of the House and Senate last week began hearings on legislation for his relief...
...Electric Auto-Lite...
Passenger traffic on the Southern Railway has declined 30% in the last five years, motor travel of course being the competitive influence. But while the auto was reducing passenger income it was increasing freight income. Fairfax Harrison, Southern president, estimated that 15% of Southern's 1928 freight traffic came from the automotive industry. Since Southern's 1928 passenger revenue was $24,000,000, of which 30% would be $7,200,000; and its freight revenue was $108,000,000, of which 15% is $16,200,000, the horseless carriage on the whole did not do so badly...
...valuable. For that kind of work experience on a large daily newspaper, before the mast, or behind the bar is the best kind of preparation. But at present the interest is more inward. The proper preparation is to acquire the greatest cultural tradition possible. The day of bright, gifted auto-didacts is over. The profound assimilation of a little experience is now more valuable than hurried acquaintance with a great many sharp unrelated facts. The literature of super reporting from time to time can rise to a virtuosity that gives it all the effect of creative lyricism. But it takes...
Citizens of the U. S. resident at Chefoo, not far away on the Shantung Coast heard firing, and presently four auto trucks piled with Nationalist wounded dashed into the city. No correspondent dared venture out into the battle area, and when Nationalist officials in Chefoo announced a "sweeping victory" they were gravely suspected of exaggeration. From Manila the U. S. cruiser Trenton set out for Chefoo, where three Japanese destroyers and one British gunboat already...